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Open defecation among toilet owners, by type of latrine

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For both male and female toilet owners, people who live in households with a latrine that was built with government support are more than twice as likely to defecate in the open than are people who live in households with a latrine that was constructed by the household itself.

Source: SQUAT Survey, 2014

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